Improvement in shoes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FITCH WEEI), OF MIDDLEBOROUG-H, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,057, dated September 19, 1865.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, FITCH VEED, ot' Middle borough, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boots or Shoes; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specitication and represented Y in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a side view of a shoe provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a representation ofthe quarters and the back piece in a distended state.

The nature of my invention or improvement consists in constructing the boot or shoe with a back piece connecting the two quarters and running down the back and from the top to the bottom of the upper, the object of such invention being not only to obtain a better t ofthe upper to the heel and ankle of the wearer oi the shoe, but to avoid the usual back seam, which imparts a disagreeable stiffness to the upper and frequently operates to chafe the foot or wear the stocking.

In the drawings7 a a denote the quarters, b the vamp,c the sole, and d the heel ofthe sole, of an ordinary shoe or bootee.

In carrying out my invention I connect the two quarters a a with a back piece, e, formed essentially in manner as exhibited in the igures, each quarter not being sewed to the other, but to the back piece, which thus comes directly between the two quarters. The middle of the said piece e runs down the back of the heel part of the upper. As the seams are brought on the sides of the ankle and heel part of the upper, they do not injuriously interfere with the proper flexibility of the upper. The back piece, while enabling the workman to obtain a better form for the shoe, is effective in saving stock and beneficial in various other respects.

I am aware that shoes havebeen made with their uppers brought together and sewed at their edges vso as to form a seam down the back of the heel and ankle parts of the upper, and that such seam has had a strip. of leather laid on it and sewed to both conjoined portions ofthe upper. I do not claim such, asit differs wholly from my invention, as in carrying out the latter the two portions or quarters ofthe upper are not lapped ononeanother and sewed together so as to form a seam running down the back of the heel, but they are arranged apart, and are only connected by the hack piece arranged between them and sewed to each. Therefore, v

What I claim as my invention or improved manufacture is- A shoe as made with the back piece, e, inserted between and sewed to each of the quarters a a ot' the upper and running from the top down to the heel ot the sole, substanstantially as hereinbefore specified.

FITCH WEED.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

